him: i.e. Jacob. Emphasis on "him" marked by Figure of speech Epistrophe (App-6), by which each clause ends with the same word. Here (in Hebrew) "him". "In. desert land He found HIM, He instructed HIM, In the waste howling wilderness, about, He led HIM, As the apple of His eye He kept HIM. "
apple. First occurrence of Hebrew. babah, used of the small round dark pupil of the eye. Hebrew. hole, gate, or door of the eye. Compare Psalms 18:8. See note on Zechariah 2:8. Called "pupil" from Latin. pupilla. a little girl.